Deu 23:3-5, Neh 13:23, Isa 15-16, Jer 48, Eze 25:1-11, Amo 2:1-3 | TSK | STEP | Ammonite.These nations were subjected for their impiety, wickedness, and enmity to Israel, (ver. 4, 5,) to peculiar disgrace; and on this account were not permitted to hold any office among the Israelites. This did not, however, disqualify them from becoming proselytes; for Ruth, who was a Moabitess, was married to Boaz, and became one of the progenitors of our Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:3-5

Ammonite.These nations were subjected for their impiety, wickedness, and enmity to Israel, (ver. 4, 5,) to peculiar disgrace; and on this account were not permitted to hold any office among the Israelites. This did not, however, disqualify them from becoming proselytes; for Ruth, who was a Moabitess, was married to Boaz, and became one of the progenitors of our Lord.

Ru 4:6,10-22; Ne 4:3,7; 13:1,2,23; Isa 56:3

Because they met.

2:28,29; Ge 14:17,18; 1Sa 25:11; 1Ki 18:4; Isa 63:9; Zec 2:8

Mt 25:40; Ac 9:4

because they hired.

Nu 22:5,7,17; Ne 13:2

Nevertheless.

Nu 22:35; 23:5-12,16-26; 24:9; Mic 6:5; Ro 8:31; 2Co 4:17

because the.

7:7,8; 33:3; Ps 73:1; Jer 31:3; Eze 16:8; Mal 1:2; Ro 9:13; 11:28

Eph 2:4,5

Nehemiah 13:23

married. Heb. made to dwell with them.

10:30; Ezr 9:2,11,12; 10:10,44; 2Co 6:14

Ashdod.

1Sa 5:1

Ammon.

1-3

Isaiah 15

1 The lamentable state of Moab.

burden.This and the following chapter form one entire prophecy; which was most probably delivered, as Bp. Lowth supposes, soon after the foregoing, (ch. 14:28-32,) in the first year of Hezekiah, and accomplished in his fourth year when Shalmaneser invaded Israel.

13:1; 14:28

Moab.

11:14; 25:10; Jer 9:26; 48:1-47; Eze 25:8-11; Am 2:1-3; Zep 2:8-11

in the.

Ex 12:29,30; 1Th 5:1-3

Ar.

Nu 21:28; De 2:9,18

brought to silence. or, cut off. Kir.

Kir-hareseth.

Kir-haresh.

Kir-haraseth.

Kir-heres.

is gone.

16:12; Jos 13:17; Jer 48:18,22,23

Moab.

3; 14:31; 16:7; Jer 48:31,39

Nebo.

Nu 32:3,38; De 34:1; Jer 48:1

Medeba.

Nu 21:30; Jos 13:16

all.

3:24; 22:12; Le 19:27,28; 21:5; De 14:1; Job 1:20; Jer 7:29; 47:5

Jer 48:1,37,38; Eze 7:18

their streets.

2Sa 3:31; 2Ki 6:30; Jon 3:6-8; Mt 11:21

on the.

2; 22:1; De 22:8; Jer 19:13; 48:38,39

weeping abundantly. Heb. descending into weeping; or, comingdown with weeping.

Heshbon.

16:8,9; Nu 32:3,4; Jer 48:34

Jahaz.

Nu 21:23; De 2:32; Jos 13:18; Jud 11:20

his.

Ge 27:46; Nu 11:15; 1Ki 19:4; Job 3:20-22; 7:15,16; Jer 8:3; 20:18

Jon 4:3,8; Re 9:6

My heart.

16:9-11; Jer 8:18,19; 9:10,18,19; 13:17; 17:16; 48:31-36

Lu 19:41-44; Ro 9:1-3

his fugitives, etc. or, to the borders thereof, even as anheifer. Zoar.

Ge 13:10; 14:2; 19:22

three.

16:14; Jer 48:34

the mounting.

Jer 48:5,34

with.

2Sa 15:23,30

destruction. Heb. breaking.

22:5; Jer 4:20

Nimrim.

Nu 32:3,36

Nimrah.

Beth-nimrah.

Jos 13:27

Beth-nimrah.

desolate. Heb. desolations. the grass.

16:9,10; Joe 1:10-12; Hab 3:17,18; Re 8:7

the abundance.

5:29; 10:6,14; Na 2:12,13

to the.

Ps 137:1,2

brook of the willows. or, valley of the Arabians.

the cry.

2-5; Jer 48:20-24,31-34

Eglaim.

Eze 47:10

En-eglaimEglaim is called Agallim by Eusebius, who places it eight miles south from Ar or Areopolis.

Dimon.Some have Dibon; and Jerome says that the same town was called both Dibon and Dimon.

more. Heb. additions.

Le 26:18,21,24,28; Jer 48:43-45

lions.

Le 26:22; 2Ki 17:25; Jer 15:3; Am 5:19

him.Bp. Lowth, upon the authority of the LXX., renders, "upon the escaped of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Admah."

Isaiah 16

1 Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David.

6 Moab is threatened for her pride.

9 The prophet bewails her.

12 The judgment of Moab.

the lamb.

2Sa 8:2; 2Ki 3:4; Ezr 7:17

from.

2Ki 14:7

Sela. or, Petra. Heb. a rock. the mount.

10:32; Mic 4:8

as.

13:14; Pr 27:8

cast out of the nest. or, a nest forsaken. the fords.

Nu 21:13-15; De 2:36; 3:8,12; Jos 13:16; Jud 11:18

Take. Heb. Bring. execute.

1:17; Ps 82:3,4; Jer 21:12; 22:3; Eze 45:9-12; Da 4:27; Zec 7:9

make.

9:6; 25:4; 32:2; Jud 9:15; Jon 4:5-8

hide.

56:8; Ob 1:12-14; Mt 25:35; Heb 13:2

mine.

De 23:15,16; 24:14; Jer 21:12

for.

14:4; 33:1; 51:13; Jer 48:8,18; Zec 9:8

extortioner. Heb. wringer. oppressors. Heb. treaders down.

15:6; 25:10; Zec 10:5; Mal 4:3; Lu 21:24; Ro 16:20; Re 11:2

in mercy.

Ps 61:6,7; 85:10; 89:1,2,14; Pr 20:28; 29:14; Lu 1:69-75

established. or, prepared. in the.

9:6,7; 2Sa 5:9; 7:16; Jer 23:5,6; Da 7:14,27; Am 9:11; Mic 4:7

Lu 1:31-33; Ac 15:16,17

judging.

11:1-5; 32:1,2; 2Sa 23:3; 1Ki 10:9; 2Ch 31:20; Ps 72:2-4; 96:13

Ps 98:9; 99:4; Zec 9:9; Heb 1:8,9

hasting.

2Pe 3:11,12

have.

2:11; Jer 48:26,29,30,42; Am 2:1; Ob 1:3,4; Zep 2:9,10; 1Pe 5:5

but.

28:15,18; 44:25; Jer 50:36

shall Moab.

15:2-5; Jer 48:20

Kir-hareseth.

11; 15:1; 2Ki 3:25

mourn. or, mutter.

8:19

the fields.

the vine.

Shibmah.

the lords.

Jazer.

stretched out. or, plucked up.

I will bewail.

15:5; Jer 48:32-34

O Heshbon.

15:4

for.

9:3; Jud 9:27; Jer 40:10,12

the shouting for. or, the alarm is fallen upon, etc.

24:8,9; 32:10; Jer 48:33; Am 5:11,17; Hab 3:17,18; Zep 1:13

my.

15:5; 63:15; Jer 4:19; 31:20; 48:36; Ho 11:8; Php 2:1

Kir-haresh.

Kir-hareseth.

when.

15:2; 26:16; Nu 22:39,41; 23:1-3,14,28; 24:17; Pr 1:28; Jer 48:35

he shall.

37:38; 1Ki 11:7; 2Ki 3:27; Jer 48:7,13,46

but.

47:13; 2Ki 19:12,16-19; Ps 115:3-7; Jer 10:5

since.

44:8

three.

7:16; 15:5; 21:16; De 15:8

the glory.

17:4; 23:9; Ge 31:1; Es 5:11; Jer 9:23; Na 2:9,10

and the remnant.

Jer 48:46,47

feeble. or, not many.

Jeremiah 48

1 The judgment of Moab,

7 for their pride;

11 for their security;

14 for their carnal confidence;

26 and for their contempt of God and his people.

47 The restoration of Moab.

A.M. cir. 3420. B.C. cir. 584. Moab.

9:26; 25:21; 27:3; Ge 19:37; Nu 24:17; 2Ch 20:10; Isa 15:1-16:14

Isa 25:10; 27:3; Eze 25:8-11; Am 2:1,2; Zep 2:8-11

Nebo.

22,23; Nu 32:3,37,38; 33:47; Isa 15:2

Misgab. or, The high place.

no more.

17; Isa 16:14

Heshbon.

34,35; Nu 21:25-30; 32:37; Isa 15:5; 16:8,9

come.

42; 31:36; 33:24; 46:28; Es 3:8-14; Ps 83:4-8

thou shalt.

25:15,17

cut down. or, brought to silence.

Isa 15:1; 25:10; *marg:

Madmenah. pursue thee. Heb. go after thee.

voice.

4:20,21; 47:2; Isa 15:2,8; 16:7-11; 22:4

Horonaim.

5,34; Isa 15:5

Moab.This prophecy against Moab, as well as the following ones concerning Ammon, Edom, and the neighbouring countries, seem to have been fulfilled during the long siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. Josephus places these events five years after the destruction of Jerusalem.

Nu 21:27-30

her.

Es 8:11; Ps 137:9

Luhith.Luhith is placed by Eusebius between Areopolis, or Ar, and Zoar. (See ver. 34.) It was evidently situated upon a height; as was also Horonaim, which was probably not far from Luhith.

Isa 15:5

continual weeping. Heb. weeping with weeping.

Flee.

51:6; Ge 19:17; Ps 11:1; Pr 6:4,5; Mt 24:16-18; Lu 3:7; 17:31-33

Heb 6:18

be like.

17:6; Job 30:3-7

the heath. or, a naked tree.

because.

9:23; 13:25; Ps 40:4; 49:6,7; 52:7; 62:8-10; Isa 59:4-6; Eze 28:2-5

Ho 10:13; 1Ti 6:17; Re 18:7

Chemosh.

13,46; 43:12; Nu 21:29; Jud 11:24; 1Ki 11:7,33; Isa 46:1,2

his priests.

49:3

the spoiler.

18; 6:26; 15:8; 25:9; 51:56

and no.

20-25; Eze 25:9

wings.

28; Ps 11:1; 55:6; Isa 16:2; Re 12:14

the cities.

46:19; Zep 2:9

Cursed.

50:25; Nu 31:14-18; Jud 5:23; 1Sa 15:3,9,13-35; 1Ki 20:42

deceitfully. or, negligently.

hath been.

Ps 55:19; 73:4-8; 123:4; Pr 1:32; *marg:

Zec 1:15

he hath.

Isa 25:6; Zep 1:12

emptied.

51:34; Isa 24:3; Na 2:2,10

thereof.

29; Isa 16:6; Eze 16:49,50

remained. Heb. stood.

wanderers.

8,15; 25:9; Isa 16:2; Eze 25:9,10

empty.

11,38; 14:3; 19:10; 25:34; Ps 2:9; Isa 30:14; Na 2:2

ashamed.

7,39,46; Jud 11:24; 1Sa 5:3-7; 1Ki 11:7; 18:26-29,40; Isa 2:20

Isa 16:12; 45:16,20; 46:1,2

as the.

1Ki 12:28,29; Ho 8:5,6; 10:5,6,14,15; Am 5:5,6

How.

8:8; Ps 11:1; Isa 36:4,5

We.

9:23; 49:16; Ps 33:16; Ec 9:11; Isa 10:13,16; 16:6; Eze 30:6

Zep 2:10

spoiled.

8,9-25

his chosen. Heb. the choice of his, etc.

Isa 40:30,31

gone.

4; 50:27; 51:40; Isa 34:2-8

saith.

46:18; 51:57; Ps 24:8-10; 47:2; Da 4:37; Zec 14:9; Mal 1:14

Re 19:16

whose.

Jas 5:4

near.

1:12; De 32:35; Isa 13:22; 16:13,14; Eze 12:23,28; 2Pe 2:3

bemoan.

31-33; 9:17-20; Isa 16:8; Re 18:14-20

How.

39; Isa 9:4; 10:5; 14:4,5; Eze 19:11-14; Zec 11:10-14

daughter.

46:18,19; Isa 47:1

Dibon.

22; Nu 21:30; 32:3; Jos 13:17; Isa 15:2

and sit.

Ge 21:16; Ex 17:3; Jud 15:18; Isa 5:13; Eze 19:13

the spoiler.

inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress. Aroer.

Nu 32:34; De 2:36; 2Sa 24:5; 1Ch 5:8

ask.

1Sa 4:13,14,16; 2Sa 1:3,4; 18:24-32

confounded.

1-5; Isa 15:1-5,8; 16:7-11

Arnon.

Nu 21:13,14,26-28; De 2:36; Jos 13:9; Jud 11:18; Isa 16:2

the plain.

8; Eze 25:9; Zep 2:9

Jahazah.

Jos 13:18

Jahaza.

Jos 21:36,37; Isa 15:4

Jahaz.

Dibon.

1,18; Nu 32:34

Beth-diblathaim.

Nu 33:46

Almon-diblathaim.

Eze 6:14

Diblath.

Kiriathaim.

1; Ge 14:5

Shaveh Kiriathaim.

Jos 13:19

Kirjathaim. Beth-meon.

Nu 32:38

Baal-meon.

Jos 13:17

Beth-baal-meon.

Kerioth.

Bozrah.

Bezer.

Bezor.

horn.

Ps 75:10; La 2:3; Da 7:8; 8:7-9,21; Zec 1:19-21

and his.

Nu 32:37; Job 22:9; Ps 10:15; 37:17; Eze 30:21-25

ye him.

13:13,14; 25:15-17,27-29; 51:7,39,57; Ps 60:3; 75:8; Isa 29:9

Isa 51:17; 63:6; La 3:15; 4:21; Eze 23:31-34; Na 3:11; Re 16:19

for he.

42; Ex 5:2; 9:17; Job 9:4; Isa 10:15; Eze 35:12,13; Da 5:23

Da 8:11,12; 11:36; Zep 2:8-10; 2Th 2:4

wallow.

Isa 19:14; 29:9; Hab 2:16

and he also.

39; Ps 2:4; 59:8; La 1:21; Eze 23:32

was not.

Ps 44:13; 79:4; Pr 24:17,18; La 2:15-17; Eze 25:8; 26:2,3; 35:15

Eze 36:2,4; Ob 1:12,13; Mic 7:8-10; Zep 2:8,10; Mt 7:2

was he found.

2:26; Mt 26:55; 27:38

skippedst. or, movedst thyself.

leave.

9; Jud 6:2; 1Sa 13:6; Isa 2:19; Ob 1:3,4

like.

49:16; Ps 55:6,7; So 2:14

heard.

Pr 8:13; Isa 16:6; Zep 2:8-15

his loftiness.

Job 40:10-12; Ps 138:6; Pr 18:12; 30:13; Isa 2:11,12; Da 4:37

Lu 14:11; Jas 4:6

know.

Isa 16:6; 37:28,29

his lies shall not so effect it. or, those on whom hestayeth (Heb. his bars) do not right. {Baddim,} as Lowth observes, sometimes means those who pretend to the art of divination. Though the soothsayers of Moab, upon whose skill she relies, promise him success, yet in the event it will appear there was no truth in what they said.

50:36; Job 9:12,13; Ps 33:10; Pr 21:30

will I howl.

Isa 15:5; 16:7-11

Kir-heres.

36; 2Ki 3:25

Kar-haraseth.

Isa 16:7

Kir-hareseth.

vine.

Nu 32:38

Shibmah.

Jos 13:19; Isa 16:8,9

Jazer.

Nu 21:32

Jaazer.

Nu 32:1,35; Jos 21:39

the spoiler.

8,15,18; 40:10

joy.

25:9,10; Isa 9:3; 16:9; 24:7-12; 32:9-14; Joe 1:12,16; Re 18:22,23

caused.

Isa 5:10; 7:23; 16:10; Joe 1:5,12,13; Hag 2:16

the cry.

2; Isa 15:4-6

Elealeh.

Nu 32:37

Jahaz.

Jahazah. Zoar.

3,5; De 34:3; Isa 15:5

as an heifer of.As a young cow, when deprived of her first calf; which runs about from place to place, filling the air with loud and repeated lowings, expressive of the deepest distress.

Nimrim.

Nu 32:3

Nimrah.

Nu 32:36

Beth-nimrah.

Isa 15:6

desolate. Heb. desolations.

him that offereth.

7; Nu 22:40,41; 28:14,28-30; Isa 15:2; 16:12

mine heart.

4:19; Isa 15:5; 16:11; 63:15

Kir-heres.

the riches.

17:11; Pr 11:4; 13:22; 18:11; Ec 5:13,14; Isa 15:7; Lu 12:20,21

Jas 5:2,3

every head.

16:6; 41:5; 47:5; Isa 3:24; 15:2,3; Eze 7:18; 27:31; Am 8:10

Mic 1:16

clipped. Heb. diminished. cuttings.

Le 19:28; 1Ki 18:28; Mr 5:5

upon the loins.

Ge 37:29,34; 1Ki 21:27; 2Ki 6:30; Isa 20:2; 37:1; Re 11:3

upon.

Isa 15:3; 22:1

broken.

22:28; 25:34; Ps 2:9; Isa 30:14; Ho 8:8; Ro 9:21,22; 2Ti 2:20,21

Re 2:27

How is it.

17; La 1:1; 2:1; 4:1; Re 18:9,10,15,16

back. Heb. neck. a derision.

26,27; Isa 20:4-6; Eze 26:16-18

he shall.

4:13; De 28:49; La 4:19; Eze 17:3; Da 7:4; Ho 8:1

spread.

49:22; Isa 8:8

Kerioth. or, The cities.

as the heart.

4:31; 6:24; 30:6; 49:22,24; 50:43; 51:30; Isa 13:8; 21:3; 26:17,18

Mic 4:9,10; 1Th 5:3

Moab.Moab has long since ceased to be a nation; while the Jews, agreeably to the Divine promise, (ch. 46:28,) though successively subdued and oppressed by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Syro-Macedonians, and Romans, (which have also all passed away, and are no more,) and dispersed over the face of the earth, subsist to this day as a distinct people from all the nations of the world!

from.

2; 30:11; Es 3:8-13; Ps 83:4-8; Isa 7:8; Mt 7:2

magnified.

26-30; Pr 16:18; Isa 37:23; Da 11:36; 2Th 2:4; Re 13:6

De 32:23-25; Ps 11:6; Isa 24:17,18; La 3:47

that fleeth.

16:16; 1Ki 19:17; 20:30; Isa 37:36-38; Am 2:14,15; 5:19; 9:1-4

the year.

8:12; 10:15; 11:23; 23:12; 46:21; 51:18; Isa 10:3; Ho 9:7; Mic 7:4

a fire.

Nu 21:28; Am 2:2

devour.

Nu 24:17; Zec 10:4; Mt 21:42

tumultuous ones. Heb. children of noise.

Woe.

Nu 21:29

the people.

7,13; Jud 11:24; 1Ki 11:7; 2Ki 23:13

captives. Heb. in captivity.

Yet will I bring.Many of the Moabites were afterwards restored to their country by Cyrus, as we learn from Josephus; but they never were restored to their national consequence; and perhaps their restoration in the latter days refers to the conversion of their scattered remnants to the gospel.

46:26; 49:6,39; Isa 18:7; 19:18-23; 23:18; Eze 16:53-55

in the latter.

23:20; 30:24; Nu 24:14; De 4:30; 31:29; Job 19:25; Eze 38:8; Da 2:28

Da 10:14; Ho 3:5

Ezekiel 25:1-11

1 God's vengeance, for their insolency against the Jews, upon the Ammonites;

8 upon Moab and Seir;

12 upon Edom;

15 and upon the Philistines.

thy face.

6:2; 20:46; 21:2; 35:2

the Ammonites.

21:28-32; Ge 19:38; Jer 9:25,26; 25:21; 27:3; 49:1-6; Am 1:13-15

Zep 2:8-11

thou saidst.

6,8; 26:2-21; 35:10-15; 36:2; Ps 70:2,3; Pr 17:5; 24:17,18

La 2:21,22; 4:21; Mic 7:8

men. Heb. children.

Jud 6:3,33; 7:12; 8:10; 1Ki 4:30Josephus expressly states, that five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar turned his arms against the Ammonites and Moabites, and entirely subjugated them; and it is probable, that the Arabs, and other nations east of Judah, then took possession of their cities, and enjoyed the fruits of their land. The country of Moab and Ammon is now inhabited by the Bedouin Arabs; where they pasture their flocks, and, no doubt, make the ruins of Rabbah, their one proud capital, "a stable for camels," and other cattle. See Note on 2 Sa 12:26.

of the east.

Ge 29:1; Nu 23:7; Isa 41:2

they shall eat.

Le 26:16; De 28:33,51; Jud 6:3-6; Isa 1:7; 32:8,9; 65:22

Rabbah.

21:20

Rabbath.

2Sa 12:26

a stable.

Isa 17:2; 32:14; Zep 2:14,15

and ye.

8; 24:24; 26:6; 30:8; 35:9; 38:23; Ps 83:18; Isa 37:20